“The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that "full educational opportunity" should be "our first national goal." From its inception, ESEA was a civil rights law.”
“ESEA offered new grants to districts serving low-income students, federal grants for textbooks and library books, funding for special education centers, and scholarships for low-income college students. Additionally, the law provided federal grants to state educational agencies to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education.”
This law was made by President Lyndon Johnson, to go to war on poverty (1965). Funding primary and secondary schools. Another reason he passed this act was to shorten the achievement gap (reading, writing and math) between students on different sides of the poverty line by allowing each student with a fair opportunity to succeed in the schools.
Reauthoized in 2001 as No Child Left Behind (2001) This law was just updated to the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was signed by Obama in 2015.
Marissa: What implication did it have on public education at that time?
Before this law was enacted the federal government had little involvement in education (state/local issue). This law began to set national achievement standards. While this law was targeted at helping students in poorly funded schools it failed to account for the fact that these schools would take longer to ‘catch up’ to more wealthy schools.Funding is dependent on the performance of students on math/reading standardized tests. (__http://education.laws.com/elementary-and-secondary-education-act__)
Accountability for schools was the main idea but hard to uphold this and ‘equalize’ schools across the country.
This law has evolved to become more flexible and focus on state plans to close achievement gaps, improve quality of ed.
Change from ‘general aid’ to categorical aid - targeting things like poverty.
Schools as a means to eradicate poverty(ESEA - ‘65) ------> schools to make students college/career ready (NCLB)
Alaina: What has changed and what does it look like in public schools today?
“ESEA authorizes state-run programs for eligible schools and districts eager to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise for students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, or transience, or who need to learn English.”
Programs that are granted due to this act of legislation: Title 1: Services for struggling learners, advanced placement students, migrants and institutional education Title 2: Teacher and Principal quality Title 3: Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students education] Title 4: Community learning centers Title 6: Rural Education achievement program Title 7: Indian, Native Hawaiian and Native Alaskan Education Title 10: Homeless education
These are all created and enacted under this law so that students of all impoverished backgrounds can have equal opportunity to learn
Now called the Every Student Succeeds Act (deals with making it so all students having high quality teachers and are college ready) , before that No Child Left Behind (dealt more with achievement gaps)
-Provides more resources to parents, teachers and students - grants for books/textbooks NOW NCLB: interventions for schools not making progress towards improvement of goals -Implementing of college and career ready standards and assessments New ESSA: high quality pre-school for students( increased access) , high academic standards across the board, seeks to help schools with high poverty rates and low graduation rates attain more success __https://blog.ed.gov/2015/04/what-is-esea/__
“The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that "full educational opportunity" should be "our first national goal." From its inception, ESEA was a civil rights law.”
“ESEA offered new grants to districts serving low-income students, federal grants for textbooks and library books, funding for special education centers, and scholarships for low-income college students. Additionally, the law provided federal grants to state educational agencies to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education.”
This law was made by President Lyndon Johnson, to go to war on poverty (1965). Funding primary and secondary schools. Another reason he passed this act was to shorten the achievement gap (reading, writing and math) between students on different sides of the poverty line by allowing each student with a fair opportunity to succeed in the schools.
Reauthoized in 2001 as No Child Left Behind (2001)
This law was just updated to the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was signed by Obama in 2015.
Marissa: What implication did it have on public education at that time?
Before this law was enacted the federal government had little involvement in education (state/local issue). This law began to set national achievement standards. While this law was targeted at helping students in poorly funded schools it failed to account for the fact that these schools would take longer to ‘catch up’ to more wealthy schools.Funding is dependent on the performance of students on math/reading standardized tests. (__http://education.laws.com/elementary-and-secondary-education-act__)
Accountability for schools was the main idea but hard to uphold this and ‘equalize’ schools across the country.
This law has evolved to become more flexible and focus on state plans to close achievement gaps, improve quality of ed.
Measures specific standards, not growth.(__https://www.ed.gov/essa?src=ft__)
Change from ‘general aid’ to categorical aid - targeting things like poverty.
Schools as a means to eradicate poverty(ESEA - ‘65) ------> schools to make students college/career ready (NCLB)
Alaina: What has changed and what does it look like in public schools today?
“ESEA authorizes state-run programs for eligible schools and districts eager to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise for students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, or transience, or who need to learn English.”
Programs that are granted due to this act of legislation:
Title 1: Services for struggling learners, advanced placement students, migrants and institutional education
Title 2: Teacher and Principal quality
Title 3: Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students education]
Title 4: Community learning centers
Title 6: Rural Education achievement program
Title 7: Indian, Native Hawaiian and Native Alaskan Education
Title 10: Homeless education
Now seen as annual testing of students, report of results, and then makes sure than inadequacies of school are covered.
ESEA: Major federal law of funding for most schools...since low SES had low SES schools the education was not comparable
__http://educationpost.org/issues/taking-responsibility/esea-reauthorization/abcs-esea-child-left-behind/__
-Provides more resources to parents, teachers and students
- grants for books/textbooks
NOW NCLB: interventions for schools not making progress towards improvement of goals
-Implementing of college and career ready standards and assessments
New ESSA: high quality pre-school for students( increased access) , high academic standards across the board, seeks to help schools with high poverty rates and low graduation rates attain more success
__https://blog.ed.gov/2015/04/what-is-esea/__